from crazy pregnant person to blissfully happy breastfeeding mother

California Girls

Hope has 4 Godmothers and 4 Godfathers … all wonderful and all inspiring, but one of them has excelled herself in love, kindness, support and generosity and thanks to her (the glamorous one) Hope and I are off in the morning to California for a few weeks. I shall be working still out there … the good thing about being self employed is that as long as I have my laptop, my phone and wifi I can work anywhere … and we shall also be having a rest, in as far as you can have a rest with a bright eyed small person who is beginning to wriggle wildly and chatters endlessly, we shall be seeing family and friends and I hope, I really hope, going whale and dolphin watching from lovely Newport Beach.

So … I’m currently battling with having had no sleep at all for two nights, a MOUNTAIN to condense into 2 suitcases and a list of ‘things to do’ … it seems quite overwhelming at the moment but Hope’s precious Granby has cooked us a wonderful roast chicken to give me some energy tonight and I’m about to dive back into the packing with gusto … Hope’s godmother Clare won’t know what has hit her when we arrive … she may need to move into the shed so there’s room for Hope and all her paraphernalia.

I may sound calm … I’m not … getting through the airport on my own with ‘stuff’ and baby is filling me with terror … let’s hope Heathrow is friendlier than Stansted was and that Virgin Atlantic are more baby/Mummy tolerant than Ryanair! It’s only a 10 or 11 hour flight … we’ll be fine!!!

Oh my god Ellie! You are my hero as this is one of the things I would have to put on my ‘fear’ list – travelling long haul with a baby. Not because of the baby, but like you say, because of all the stuff! I truly hope you have THE MOST AMAZING in time in California – I am very jealous! Also just to let you know I will be going to Mumsnets Blogfest after all – see you and beautiful Hope there!

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Hola from a long journey

Thanks for stopping by ... the high speed summary is that I started this in the days after having IVF in Southern Spain and then finding myself pregnant at the age of 47.

Long awaited and tenaciously grasped onto in spite of me being "geriatric" and "high risk" and The Spaniard (as the small soul was known having been made in a test tube in Spain) being classified as "high value". We were told (endlessly) of the risks and were only too aware of the dangers the pregnancy faced.

This is our journey.

Post Script …

My darling little Spaniard ceased to be in January 2012 when Hope was born. I was 47 3/4 ... not just an older mum but a positively geriatric first time mother,
I mourned the passing of my precious Spaniard, my dear dear friend and companion just as I celebrated my daughter's arrival. Hope is a wonderful thriving child and I count my blessings every day as I look at her in absolute awe and wonder. For me it isn't about being an older mother it's simply about being a mother and the best mother I can be.

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